Matador Records Co-Owner Gerard Cosloy's House Burns Down

And you thought you were having a bad day because a pen exploded in your pocket. Matador Records co-owner and overall indie godhead Gerard Cosloy's 98-year-old Austin, Texas home burned to the ground early this morning, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Awful. Thankfully, nobody was injured in the blaze; the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Cosloy posted a picture of the charred remains (left) on his sports blog Can't Stop the Bleeding with the caption "Normal service will resume...I dunno. Sooner or later. This was a hell of a way to get out of hoovering the living room."